E3 2008: Disney Sing It Voice-on

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Get it? Because it's a singing game!

By Jack DeVries

Karaoke games are the new platformer. I'm calling it right now people. Konami has Karaoke Revolution, Sony has Singstar, Microsoft just unveiled Lips, and Disney is in the game now with Disney Sing It. Now I've been saying for a while now that Disney should do a karaoke game, and while this isn't the Disney movie song collection I was hoping for, it's still a genius marketing move on Disney's part.

Disney practically breeds singers and has a wide selection of young stars that have hit singles. Miley Cyus, Corbin Bleu, Aly & AJ are just some of the kid favorites featured in the game.

The presentation is pretty familiar to anyone that's played Singstar or those that have been following Lips. The music video for the song plays in the background and a colored pitch bar is in front of it. Lyrics are below that and players try and match the pitch.

Like all these karaoke titles, Sing It features a few different multiplayer modes. Players can sing versus or duet all songs, and songs that have multiple vocalists (like Aly & AJ tunes) allow players to select who they want to sing as.

Disney is marketing Sing It as the family-friendly karaoke game, so all the songs in it are family appropriate. While other games don't have particularly racy songs, Disney filled their library with songs that are already suitable for say, Radio Disney.

Even with the kid focus there were songs that I knew. Greg Miller squealed like an excited girl when he saw that Billy Rae Cyrus had a song in there. And I was psyched to see my favorite Hanna Montana song was available, so heck yeah!

Kids already adore Hannah Montana, so the opportunity to sing the theme song from it, as well as songs from High School Musical and other popular Disney franchises is enough to pretty much guarantee this game will be huge. The presentation seems solid and with up to eight player multiplayer it should be fun for the kids.